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I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography by Paul R. Halmos
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“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”
― Paul R. Halmos, I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

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